Cortex is a retrieval layer with built-in memory for RAG that delivers fast, personalised, human like answers.
Delight users, remember their preferences, deliver mind blowing experiences to make them fall in love with your AI.
One SDK. Zero wasted days tuning vector DBs, encoders, thresholds, weights, embedding fallbacks, evals or graphs. Just context-aware intelligence that actually works out of the box for your users.
from cortex import CortexClient
client = CortexClient(api_key="your-key")
# Store memory as context
client.remember(user_id="tenant123", content="I have upcoming sales appointments next week with Acme")
# Retrieve contextual insights and prep
client.query("Help me prepare for upcoming meetings. Also, where should I meet them?")
# → "Alex mentioned he has upcoming meetings with Acme."
# → "Found all relevant context and notes. Seems like Acme's concerned with the integrations."
# → "Alex is an expert at integrations! Let me prepare a sales pitch showcasing his work."
# → "Alex mentioned he likes Starbucks near South Park. I should suggest that for the meeting."
We were tired of integrating memory and retrieval separately. Why wasn't there a 'Stripe' for the AI layer? A system where memories are stored automatically, context evolves over time, and you can simply call an API to retrieve knowledge without having to rebuild the whole stack or integrating memory separately into the retrieval engine. We wanted a plug-and-play retrieval layer that remembers previous conversations, preferences, and intents, without stitching together a dozen brittle components.
Before we opened up our SDK to other developers, we dogfooded our offering by building our own consumer application on top of it. Our app ended up on the front page of Product Hunt as "The Product of the Day" and eventually got voted as one of "The Best Personal Productivity Tools" on Product Hunt. From the start, we understood exactly how APIs need to behave and what kind of flexibility is required to build truly useful applications.
We’ve felt this pain firsthand. We know what it’s like to stitch together brittle pipelines, tweak retrieval thresholds endlessly, and fight latency just to make something usable. Every decision we made while building Cortext came from that experience—because we were our own first users. We’ve spent countless hours refining the smallest details, so developers don’t have to.
Over time, we collected thousands of pieces of user feedback. We used that feedback to fine-tune our architecture and optimize for real-world performance. Today, Cortex acts as the best retrieval engine in the world—with latencies under 40 milliseconds. After powering millions of search queries, we've learned how to blend personalized memory with lightning-fast human level search to make your app feel like it reads your mind. We didn’t just build a product—we built the infrastructure we wished we had when we started.
Whether you’re building an AI app, agent, Cortex makes it memory-first to give your products real-world intelligence: